Elon was walking through an airport with his son when Saxon saw a newspaper and asked:
“How did they know it was today’s date?”
Elon explained they print a new one every day.
Saxon thought for a second and said: “Every day? What a chore.”
Then he added: “They probably just read the internet and print it out.”
Elon: “Yeah… pretty much.” 😂
Elon Musk on universal basic income coming from AI future:
"Mass unemployment will be a massive social challenge. Ultimately, we'll have no choice but to adopt some form of universal basic income"
"There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better"
Elon Musk: “The Earth only receives about half a billionth of the Sun’s energy. The Sun is 99.8% of all mass in the solar system. People ask about other sources of power on Earth, like fusion, but that is very small because the Sun is 99.8% of the mass. Jupiter is about 0.1%, and Earth is in the miscellaneous category — like a tiny dust mote in a vast darkness.
The Sun is enormous. So the way to actually scale civilization is to scale power in space. This is necessarily true because we capture such a tiny amount of the Sun’s energy on Earth.”
Elon Musk: "I started reading quite a bit about rockets to try and understand why they're so freaking expensive
If one could make them reusable like airplanes, then the cost of rocketry would drop dramatically
The cost of the fuel was maybe anywhere from 0.2% to 0.5% of the cost of the rocket
I came to the conclusion that there wasn't really a good reason for rockets to be so expensive and that they could be a lot less even in an expendable format
Nobody had really been able to make a reusable rocket work... but if we can do that, then that would really be the key breakthrough"
This might be the best Starlink commercial ever made. The most powerful demos don’t need slides—they prove themselves live.
Elon Musk joined a conference interview from a private jet on Starlink. The video was so smooth that the hosts assumed he was on the ground—until he revealed he was thousands of feet in the air. Instant, undeniable proof.
Starlink delivers high-speed, low-latency internet almost anywhere, including in flight. As more planes adopt it, reliable sky connectivity is becoming the norm.
Lesson for founders: The best marketing is the product itself. Solve the problem so well that customers become your proof.
I am confident that Starship will play a pivotal role in making human missions to Mars a reality. The path forward is becoming increasingly clear, and the future of space exploration has never looked more promising.
Elon Musk explains why Starlink is basically unbreakable
“There are over 10,225 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit right now, moving at 25 times the speed of sound, Zipping around the Earth at ~550 km altitude
Because they’re so close, latency is extremely low unlike old-school geostationary satellites at 36,000 km.
They’re all interconnected with laser links, forming a giant laser mesh network in space
Even if fiber cables get cut on the ground, Starlink keeps working perfectly
High-speed internet anywhere on Earth no matter what happens below”
Elon Musk: ”There will be some pretty amazing things that happen. So if you’ve got humanoid robots that are very high dexterity and are incredibly smart, it means that everyone on Earth will have access to better medical care than the richest person on Earth.
If I had to have a neck surgery three times because the first two ones were done wrong. And my back still hurts a little bit.
I’m like, can AI please solve back pain? That would be a huge one. And I think it will.
So, you know, back pain sucks, and I think that’s maybe why sometimes people get grumpy when they get older.”
Elon Musk on AI, Robotics & Abundance:
“With AI and robotics, this is the path to abundance for all
If you want to solve global poverty or give everyone a very high standard of living, the only way to do that is AI and robotics
That doesn’t mean it’s without risk. We have to be very careful… we don’t want to end up in a Terminator movie
But if AI becomes ubiquitous and essentially free, and robotics is everywhere too, you’ll see an explosion in the global economy on a scale that’s hard to even comprehend”